Wanli Youming

Chapter 153

Chapter 153

As soon as Wang Guoguang said this, the princes became more silent.

Only Shen Shixing said with a smile after a while: "It's not that there is no conscience, it's just that the scholar-bureaucrats should think more about the father and the people of the country. It is better to humiliate the clan officials and gentry than the father and the people of the country. .”

Zhang Siwei also said at this time: "Yes, we must be the same as Yuanfu, always keep our father and Sheji in our hearts."

The privy envoy Fang Fengshi heard what Zhang Siwei said, and he stood up and cupped his hands in front of Zhang Ju, saying: "Uncle! The sage said: 'A gentleman is a metaphor for righteousness, and a villain is a metaphor for profit'. All the princes present are people who read sage books and practice it." A gentleman of sages and sages will naturally not ignore righteousness because of some advantages and disadvantages; even if you view it, it is just a thought, and you will not really want to carry out this new policy, and you will not care about right and wrong for the gentry and clan!"

"So, if the public really wants to continue to reform the system, and for the sake of laying the foundation for eternal stability, we will not disagree with our efforts."

"That's right!"

"Wang Ge always speaks out for the powerful because he thinks that the public will make the meat eaters hate and hate him even more;"

"We actually have this concern, but it is clearer that Gong Zhi would rather be a straw mat for your father regardless of life and death! So now, I have not discouraged you like Wang Ge, but I will not force you I really want to tolerate this with the dignitaries and gentry."

"Therefore, we can only follow what Zhang Ge said, only obey the orders of the public;"

"If you want to change it, then change it!"

"If the public doesn't change it, then don't change it, and leave it to future generations for those with greater perseverance to change it!"

"Hengqu keeps four words, and those who don't care about life and death for the country will not be eliminated!"

Pan Sheng, Minister of Rites, also spoke at this time.

After hearing this, Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhang Siwei: "Ziwei, you mean the same as Uncle Da Zong said?"

Zhang Siwei took a look at the Minister of Rites who was recommended by Zhang Juzheng to the cabinet before his death, and then he had to stand up and bow his hands, and said with a forced smile:

"Yuanfu, the subordinates are exactly as Da Zongbo said; privately, I really can't bear to let Yuanfu go on this road full of thorns and beasts; and Yugong, I don't want to miss the opportunity of long-term stability of the society, so it's embarrassing. , can only obey Yuansuke's order;"

"As Uncle Da Zong said, if Yuanfu wants to be desperate, then the subordinates must follow suit!"

Zhang Siwei choked up as he spoke: "Everything Uncle Da Zong said was taken from the bottom of his subordinates!"

Zhang Juzheng nodded with a smile, stood up and cupped his hands towards Zhang Siwei, Pan Sheng and the others: "How lucky is this servant, to meet the princes, and help the king to rejuvenate and start a prosperous and prosperous dynasty!"

Zhang Siwei, Pan Sheng and others hurriedly returned the gift.

Seeing this, Wang Guoguang sighed: "Forget it! Seeing the virtuous and thinking together, I seem to be the most unfair and loyal to the country among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, but now that the audience is affected by the wind of the Zhengying Dynasty, I know that I am willing to change it. It's wrong to only have selfishness for the safety of friends and disregard the country!"

Saying that, Wang Guoguang also cupped his hands to Zhang Juzheng: "Uncle, just do what you want, I will never resign because of this matter, make things difficult for you, even if someone impeaches me for it, I have to defend myself , share some infamy with you."

"As for the rest of the princes, they are more upright and sensible than I, and they will only be the same as I, and they are more willing to do so."

"But?"

After Wang Guoguang said it, he asked everyone.

"Except that you sometimes can't tell the difference between public and private, the princes are indeed a little clearer than you, but you are also concerned about the servant, so why does the servant have the right to be angry?"

Zhang Juzheng didn't wait for everyone to answer Wang Guoguang, he first started talking with a smile, then he stood up and said with a smile, "Your Excellency's meaning, I already understand, I will tell you after I have made up my mind."

Then, Zhang Juzheng said again: "At present, Mr. Xu intends to persuade his servant to return to the emperor and enjoy the happiness in the forest. He also intends to marry his servant and admire his daughter-in-law as his servant and concubine, so as to make a good story; although I have already had it." Begging for rest' ambition, but as the lords said in the past, the emperor's plowing rites and mausoleum ceremonies have not yet been completed, and the old problems have not been completely eliminated, so let me ask you to talk about it, should the servants be returned instead of returned?"

"Not Angelica!"

It was still Wang Guoguang who spoke first, then patted the tea table, got up and said:

"What kind of words does this sound like! How can a veteran official have the qualifications to persuade the head of the dynasty to beg for retirement?"

"If you don't listen to me, will you be given the name of Nian Zhan power?"

"If the Lord listens, is it necessary to explain that he is the one who really has the final say in my Ming Dynasty, who is more powerful than the emperor, whoever persuades him to retreat, he will have to retreat, is it true that people in the world only fear him but not the emperor? "

Wang Guoguang cupped his hands to Zhang Juzheng and said: "Uncle, I feel that this matter is inappropriate, and other gentlemen understand things better than I, so they will naturally feel that this matter is inappropriate!"

Wang Guoguang then looked at Zhang Siwei: "Ziwei, do you think so?"

Zhang Siwei's heart was burning, and he gritted his teeth urgently. Finally, he had to nod and said: "Yes! Mr. Xu did a very bad job, and he has the style of a lost minister!"

"Old Mr. Xu is also out of his friendship with Yuanfu as a teacher and a student, so he has such a loving heart. Although it is indeed inappropriate, it is also understandable;"

"If Yuanfu really wants to beg for a rest because of this, people in the world will not really speculate that the uncle fears the Xu family more than the Tian family because of this, and will only think that Yuanfu is just obeying the teacher's order."

Ma Ziqiang said.

"Is Mr. Ge confused?"

Wang Guoguang asked Ma Ziqiang a question, and then asked: "The teacher's life is more important, or the emperor's majesty?"

After asking, Wang Guoguang said sharply: "It's good that Mr. Xu didn't persuade him like this. Now that he persuades him like this, then no matter what, Shuda can't retreat! Unless the emperor personally issued an edict, or someone really impeached him, But he can't ask to resign on his own! And if we now persuade Shu Da to obey Mr. Xu's advice and beg to resign and become an official, it would be a disservice to His Majesty, Yuanfu, and even more a disservice to Mr. Xu!"

Wang Guoguang went on to say: "If Duke Hai is here, Mr. Xu will be impeached immediately! As the chief assistant of the two dynasties, what do you do? Do you still care about the emperor?! "

Immediately, Wang Guoguang asked the ministers present: "Masters, do you want the uncle to follow without the emperor?!"

Naturally, the princes are not good at talking.

Even Ma Ziqiang had to say: "This servant made a slip of the tongue. I was not as thoughtful as you in visualization. I almost made a big mistake!"

At this time, Zhang Juzheng asked Zhang Siwei and other ministers again: "Do you all think so?"

At this time, these ministers all replied: "As the elder Wang Ge said, there really cannot be any suspicion that the elder of the Shanzhong Pavilion can decide whether to stay or stay in the court."

"Sure enough, the princes know the general situation. In this way, the servant can only continue to rest the heart of going back to the hometown to beg for rest. Everything will be discussed after the ceremony of plowing the land and visiting the mausoleum."

Zhang Juzheng laughed and said, "Let's leave now, please."

As a result, all the ruling ministers left the residence of the chief assistant.

……

"What are you talking about, officials and gentry pay food and work together?!"

One month later, Songjiang Huating.

After Xu Jie learned from Xu Ying that Zhang Juzheng had discussed with the ruling ministers in the DPRK about the abolition of preferential exemptions and making officials and gentry pay food and errands as a whole, he immediately stood up from the grand teacher's chair with a cane, his voice trembling. asked Xu Ying carefully.

Xu Yingdao: "That's what Zhang Shixiong said in his letter, but right now it's just under discussion, it hasn't been decided yet, and Zhang Jiangling doesn't seem to have made up his mind to continue doing this."

"Change it, change it, he will keep changing it, if he Zhang Jiangling changes the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty will not let him go!"

Xu Jie kept knocking on the floor tiles with his crutches, and for a while he lost his composure and complained about his dissatisfaction with Zhang Juzheng.

After a while, Xu Jie regained his composure and asked, "How did you discuss that? Did Ziwei and the others ask him to give up his idea? Did they persuade Zhang Juzheng to agree to our initiative to seek peace?"

Xu Ying shook her head, handed the letter to Xu Jie, and said, "Brother Zhang Shi said that because Wang Yangcheng (Wang Guoguang) is too treacherous, in the end everyone can only think that what you did was wrong, father, because otherwise you will There will be suspicions of having no eyes for the Son of Heaven."

Xu Jie took the letter and read it, his face sank for a while, and he sat back after a long time, gnashing his teeth and saying:

"This Wang Yangcheng is actually so hateful!"

"These big officials who started from the state department are really more difficult to deal with than those who survived in the Hanlin Qingliu. They are playing tricks one by one, using the method of dealing with evil gentry and corrupt officials to deal with their colleagues, and they don't show any affection at all!"

"This Wang Yangcheng is like this, and Ding You's Hai Rui is also like this. It is not difficult to understand that Ziwei suffered a disadvantage."

"The key point is that Zhang Jiangling is also vicious. In order to reform the system, he did not hesitate to let a non-clear poet like Wang Yangcheng join the cabinet, which led to the current situation!"

"However, sometimes when I think about it, it's not Wang Yangcheng, nor Haigangfeng, nor Zhang Jiangling who is really hateful, but this sage's truth, some scholar-bureaucrats really believe it!"

(End of this chapter)